pypi see older versions of package

Question

This is the package I'm interested in:

However, the latest version no longer supports Django 1.3. I need to find a version that does. How do I see a list of older versions?

There seems to be no older packages available, that package alone is 2 years old — Padraic Cunningham, Aug 03 '14 at 11:28
You really should consider upgrading your Django version. 1.3 has been unsupported for ages. — Daniel Roseman, Aug 03 '14 at 11:44
Grappelli 2.3.9 requires Django 1.3 . source:http://django-grappelli.readthedocs.org/en/2.3.9/ — ruddra, Aug 03 '14 at 11:49
The question title is generic. Others coming here might want to solve a similar issue for different libraries of different ages. — Ed Randall, May 30 '16 at 09:34
What is the title? A (literal) error message? Or something else? — Peter Mortensen, Apr 05 '22 at 16:39

score 85 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 30 '15 at 23:25

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It's perhaps a little inelegant, but it appears that you can go to the URL

https://pypi.python.org/simple/<package>

And you will get a bunch of links to tarballs for the package.

Ex:

https://pypi.python.org/simple/django-filebrowser-no-grappelli/

answered Mar 30 '15 at 23:25

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This Works.. But PYPI should ideally add a link to access older packages too. – myloginid Jul 31 '15 at 08:28
it is a elegant idea, though – Min Wang Aug 02 '17 at 17:23
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@tan It's inelegant because you're bypassing the normal graphical interface and, *as a human*, requesting a page intended to be consumed by code (e.g. `pip` might use this page). – jpmc26 Nov 15 '17 at 19:50

score 38 · Answer 2 · edited Apr 05 '22 at 16:45

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This is visible in the new UI for pypi:

https://pypi.org/project/<package>/#history

For example:

https://pypi.org/project/django-filebrowser-no-grappelli/#history

edited Apr 05 '22 at 16:45

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answered Jan 04 '17 at 19:38

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This new UI is really nice and useful. – mbdevpl Jan 20 '17 at 09:06
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This should be the accepted answer. – phoenix Mar 21 '18 at 16:48

Eugene Yarmash · Answer 3 · 2019-04-30T12:51:10.927

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You can use this short Python 3 script to grab the list of available versions for a package from PyPI using JSON API:

#!/usr/bin/env python3

import sys    
import requests
from pkg_resources import parse_version    

def versions(pkg_name):
    url = f'https://pypi.python.org/pypi/{pkg_name}/json'
    releases = requests.get(url).json()['releases']
    return sorted(releases, key=parse_version, reverse=True)    

if __name__ == '__main__':
    print(*versions(sys.argv[1]), sep='\n')

Demo:

$ python versions.py django-filebrowser-no-grappelli
3.7.8
3.7.7
3.7.6
3.7.5
3.7.4
3.7.3
3.7.2
3.7.1
3.7.0
3.6.2
3.6.1
3.5.8
3.5.7
3.5.6
3.1.1

edited Apr 30 '19 at 12:51

answered Nov 22 '16 at 15:41

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What does the domain `warehouse.readthedocs.io` represent? – Peter Mortensen Apr 05 '22 at 16:44
@PeterMortensen It's the documentation for [Warehouse](https://github.com/pypa/warehouse) (the software that powers [PyPI](https://pypi.org/)). – Eugene Yarmash Apr 05 '22 at 21:33

score 8 · Answer 4 · edited Apr 05 '22 at 16:46

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Using pip you can find out all the available versions of that package:

pip install django-filebrowser-no-grappelli==randomwords

This will produce an output of all the available packages:

Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement
  django-filebrowser-no-grappelli==randomwords
(from versions: 3.1.1, 3.5.6, 3.5.7, 3.5.8, 3.6.1, 3.6.2, 3.7.0, 3.7.1, 3.7.2)
   No matching distribution found for
   django-filebrowser-no-grappelli==randomwords

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answered Jul 06 '17 at 09:22

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This is the best by now for me, raised bounty for this. However, I still see it as a workaround, `pip` should have a clear option to list all available versions. – user.dz Nov 09 '17 at 12:59

score 4 · Answer 5 · edited Apr 05 '22 at 16:41

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Store the following code in the get_version.py file:

import json
import sys
import urllib2

from distutils.version import LooseVersion

name = sys.argv[1]

resp = urllib2.urlopen("https://pypi.python.org/pypi/{}/json".format(name))
data = json.load(resp)

for ver in sorted([LooseVersion(version) for version in data["releases"].keys()]):
    print ver.vstring

Run it to get a sorted list of all package versions:

python get_version.py %PACKAGE-NAME%

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answered Sep 15 '16 at 08:25

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Where is the *get_version.py* file located? – Peter Mortensen Apr 05 '22 at 16:41
What do you mean? You have to create the file and put the code outlined in my answer there. – Archibald Apr 06 '22 at 12:32

score 3 · Answer 6 · edited Apr 05 '22 at 16:40

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If you are using pip to install your package, then you may use:

pip install yolk
yolk -V django-filebrowser-no-grappelli

Unfortunately the only available version seems to be:

django-filebrowser-no-grappelli 3.1.1

However, you can try to find another version on the Internet and install by:

pip install -Iv <url_package>

edited Apr 05 '22 at 16:40

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answered Aug 03 '14 at 11:32

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